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SUMMARY:Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics? - Brian Josephson (Uni
 versity of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Jan Behrends
DESCRIPTION:According to Rosen\, complex systems have no largest model\, c
 asting doubt on the idea that there exists a single equation describing al
 l of reality. Wheeler proposed instead that there are no fixed laws of nat
 ure\, but rather laws created by the activity of intelligent observers. In
  the lecture I will expand on this proposal\, using a combination of exist
 ing approaches in biology to characterise in some detail a new ‘dynamic 
 nature’ paradigm. Here Wheeler’s hypothesised ‘observer-participancy
 ’ has a ‘design’ aspect\, accounting for well-known aspects of natur
 e in new ways.
LOCATION:TCM Seminar Room
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